In response to “Tough Crowd,” VM reader Tom Spurgeon writes:
“Don’t you have it exactly backwards? I thought that Camus was in the resistance, and spent a lot of time after the war writing brutal letters and essays indicting the godly institutions for being cowards and supporting Nazi brutality.”
And he’s right! But, at the age of 20 or so, I was a bunch less informed about this sorta thing, operating pretty much on the principle that the French were a bunch of “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,” and so I devalued any philosophy or art that they created.
And so, to my French readers, I say, “Mea culpa!”
Oh, wait: that’s Latin. How does “Mon mauvais!” sound?
Well, anyway, to make it up to France, I’ll post a little slideshow of my trip to Paris from last October when I get home this evening (as a break from stuffing envelopes).